ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,336, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Waveform configuration and indication for uplink transmission" was invented by Jing Lei (San Diego), Seyong Park (San Diego), Hung Dinh Ly (San Diego), Wei Yang (San Diego), Linhai He (San Diego), Joseph Binamira Soriaga (San Diego), Wanshi Chen (San Diego) and Ruiming Zheng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless communications systems may support flexible waveform configuration for autonomous uplink transmissions. A base station may transmit broadcast signaling (e.g., a system information block (SIB)) indicating waveform configuration information for an aut...